The same problem can happen in Thunar. For some cases Nautilus itself needs an additional patch, but the underlying problem was identified and fixed in glib. Unfortunately the fixed version is not available in Ubuntu yet. See the Thunar bug for more details, and thanks go to Nelson Benitez for fixing it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/1332623 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375 Title: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1021375/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs